70-200 2.8L IS with EF 2x Extender
50mm 1.2L
Leica Summilux 50mm 2.0
Zeiss Planar-T 50mm 1.4

I used to have
16-35 2.8l
24-105 4.0L IS

Anyways here's a few shots to get my eye for color correct. Just old shots, practiced on with nothing artistic in mind.

Smelly Bahggers. Don't waste your money.

People should come to aus to photograp topless women on the beaches or the bush in it's glory, not to mention the islands along the queensland coast, they're effin nice.

Got, but got few issues.

1. I don't know shit about where stars are. I simply aim and bam!
2. Regret Selling wide angle, since i don't know where the good stars are, i need a panorama. 14mm Fishyeye GET.
3. Stupid Canon and their sial low pass with IR and UV high filter. Filters out all the good hydrogen alpha red. Once i get MkIII, this b**** is going under the knife to remove those filters.
4. Focusing. Serious Business.

But here's an attempt from me. Recommended PPing applied. The Tinged red area should be far more red, but teh filters raped it.

Nop. There supposed to be a whole load more of red, but i suppose one cannot edit a picture where the red doesn't exist in the first place due to the sensor filter. Drats.

Posting some new pics. Very busy, got Power Plant test at 4, Have to hand up my Eng Design Drawings too. Some more got to get cooking on my audits.

Only 3 pics. First one is my hand at mono, but no indepth mono editing, i have class in like 1 hour lol.


For some reason i keep recalling the fact that nobody knows the goddamned words to Advance Australia Fair. Thus i hereby poast a pic of the aussie flag, with 2 stars a figure to be part of the Southern Cross.


I don't know why, but i love the scenery outside Z-block (pariah engineering people get the ass end of block designations). Finished my CAD work at 8 last night, so i took a pic when leaving.

No good shots for this week. Too lazy after my barrage of assignments. Also got alot of bills to deal with, which kill mood to snap pics.

But i have one of a cat at my friend's place. Could have framed it better, but was more interested in eating sausages with nandos sauce lol.

Went out to town. Got a few good shots.

This one was actually taken at night under a streetlight at low shutter with MF Zeiss. 1/20th, a bit too blur for my liking.


Smoking Jap is Smoking. Literally.


Smoking isn't good for health, but it sure is artsy!


Taken in Bus




One Added Rubbish Pic

Badly taken with new hand technique where i rest the lense on my elbow. Just for test.

New Theme babe, Town by Night and Autumn's A coming/









Autumn Pics

3 Pic set since coppers forced me to delete pics.

Of old people, drunks and sly plotters.

400mm achieved with a teleconverter.

Anyways 50mm has become the staple lense which i photograph with.

Here are some shots with my Leica Summicron, known affectionately as "the cron"


Wood identification complete. Yeap, that's wood alright.




As the Aussies say, "lest we forget"



Probably will get more interesting shots when the exams end, took these as i left the lab at 4.30 and and wandered around before i went back home.

Higher Education by Night

A short series of pics of the University of Southern Queensland.

Was there from 6 to 9.30 getting some studying done.

Surprising to see the amount of passable pictures i can take on the way to and back from Z-block. Exams finish on the 26th, but what the heck, might as well post a few impromptu pics.

Flowers near R block.




Birdies on a Windmill (yes, Toowoomba mmg ulu lerr)


Smoking, I reiterate, is bloody cool lol.

Thanks for the birthday wishes. Now here's two more pics. I can't seems to get the dark sensitive film look, but i'm experimenting lol.



taken by housemate, me shooting the moon.

More pics?






Below are pics of people watching a street performance.






And now even more!








This post has been edited by empire23: Jul 2 2008, 09:10 PM

Hurr, even more pics. Sharpness is an OVERRATED value.

One last post lol.

Was taken in my uni, just so happened it was around 5 (sun sets here early), and since the courtyard is surrounded by buildings, the light penetrated at this perfect angle which illuminated him only. Just did some curves to get a better contrast effect.

Use in Lightroom. Luminescence curves to tweak the light.

Taking pics out in standard output mono is pointless and ugly, color cameras were never meant to do BW photography. That's a job for T-Max or Delta with a good rangefinder like the M6, Bessa or Ikon. Thus curve tweaking is a must. But for now i'll use what i have until i grow balls to move on to film.

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Added on July 3, 2008, 8:11 pm

One extra pic. Already OOF so i generally blurred it further and tweaked a few things to give the 60s to 70s technicolor look for a feeling of warm fuziness as you can see with the father with sons bonding at Maccas thang. Meant to throw viewer back to days where folks going out with their kids was more common place.

This post has been edited by empire23: Jul 3 2008, 08:11 PM

Pictures from my recent road trip

Taken around Fraser Island and Lake McKenzie

More pics